Clastres (in Society Against the State & The Archaeology of Violence) puts forward a theory that society itself is a structure that is meant to resist the emergence of the state. … a kind of “freedom machine” … IT’s an actual mechanism for the preservation of social freedoms. Peter Lamborn Wilson, Ploughing the Clouds in Dreamflesh 1

“I argue that art is a part of man’s quest for grace; … I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and that what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind- especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called “consciousness” and the other the “unconsciousness”.” Gregory Bateson, Style, Grace and Information..

There are many who believe that the immune system’s 1012 cells actually form a floating brain. Jesper Hoffmeyer, Signs of Meaning in the Universe (1)

immune system: “a self-referential, positive assertion of a coherent unity”. Francisco Varela

..better an organism knows something, the less conscious it becomes of its knowledge
This phenomenon, which is central to Zen discipline, is also relevant to all art and skill. Style, Grace and Information

Reciprocal perceptual knowledge

• → dance ritual → (ecstacy / performance) → shamanism → theatre → (representation / rhetoric) → political stage → (body politic) → psychodrama → →→→ distributed shamanism → a new stage → (infra~conscious) → self-representation ie performance*

The immune system was a kind of metaphor. It solved the need for communication not only between cells but between the professionals. Signs of Meaning..

The stage produced by political articulation is the stage of history love’s body
The thrust of the social group to make itself visible on the stage is at the same time the thrust of a transcendent reality to make itself visible; to be represented on earth; to be impersonated, or incarnated; for, in the last resort, the transcendent reality is the group itself. Norman O. Brown, love’s body

…‘biological reality’ as the particular representation of the external world that the brain of a given species is able to build. Signs of Meaning..

Is there something besides opinion? In other words,.. is there something besides our “democracies”?
..does the choice of truth inevitably take the form of mastery?
..choice itself must be sacrificed
..we must experiment with the equivalence of choice and nonchoice. Only then will an impersonal truth arise.
Our situation in today’s democracy is exactly the same: to change such and such a president is equivalent to not choosing him. This is because, regardless of the choice, politics will remain the same, commanded as it is by the transcendence of the capitalist organisation of science, on the one hand, and the aleatory effects of the market on the other.
I believe the principal challenge faced by contemporary thought is the following: to discover a thinking of choice and of the decision that would go from the void to truth without passing through the figure of the master,.., without either invoking or sacrificing the master.
How can truth be thought, at one and the same time, as anonymous (or impersonal) and nevertheless as immanent or terrestrial? Alain Badiou, Handbook of Inaesthetics

Notion of a centralized government in the brain fades away, to be replaced by a more interactive and analogous organization. Signs of Meaning..

Art is a thought in which artworks are the REAL.
Art itself is a truth producer. handbook of inaesthetics

…bring into focus previously occluded and unthematized aspects of reality. Stephen Fitzpatrick, Theatre of Dreams in Experiences in Social Dreaming, W. G. Lawrence Ed.

..discovery of social meanings is never easy. What may be more important than the `product’.., the meanings, which can never be absolute, is the `process’ of arriving at the range of meanings possible. W.G. Lawrence, Won From the Void and Formless Infinite

It is challenging to sculpt the flow of a moving universe, where movement itself creates space. Franca Lubini

Myth comes in the same zone as dream ..what I call the wisdom body . When you go to sleep, it’s the body that’s talking. And what it is moved by are energies that it does not control. These are the energies that control the body. They come in from the great biological ground, whatever it may be, protoplasm. They are there. They are energies and they are matters of consciousness. But we also have in this body, this affair up here, the head, and it has a system of thinking of its own. And that’s a whole manner of consciousness that stems from the headset, and it is different in its knowledge from that of the body. These energies that are not of yourself are the energies of the universe.
… myth is a function of biology. It speaks of the energies that move the consciousness. They’re all determined by the organs of the body. …myth [and dream] has to do with the harmonization of one’s consciousness in relation to the ground of being in nature, in the body, which is itself a manifestation of a mystery.
Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey

NOTES
1) As has become clear in recent years the immune system and the nervous system are not easily separated. Not only are nerve fibres branching into the organs of the immune system, thymus, lymph glands, bone marrow and spleen. But more important, a major conceptual shift in neuroscience has been wrought by the realisation that brain function is modulated by numerous chemicals in addition to classical neurotransmitters. Many of these informational substances are neuropeptides and the finding that surface receptors for neuropeptides, formerly believed to be exclusively found in the nervous system, are widespread on the surfaces of mobile cells from the immune system, indicates the extent of integration of the two big systems. As the biochemist Candace Pert has put it: “Neuropeptides and their receptors thus join the brain, glands and immune system in a network of communication between brain and body, probably representing the biochemical substrate of emotion” (Pert et. al. 1985). Therefore some people claim that the immune system should rather be considered as a floating brain. Not only do nerve cells and immune cells communicate via hormones but certain immune cells are even capable of penetrating the brain. Pert suggests that such cells function as ‘mobile synapses’ bringing information from one part of the body to another.
Gradually a new image arises in which the brain is functionally integrated into the body. Swarms of immune cells interact with swarms of nerve cells in maintaining the somatic ecology. The view of a centralised authority in the brain controlling the ignorant body fades out of sight and is replaced by an interactive organisation based upon the distributed problem solving capacity of myriad’s of cell swarms working in parallel. The immune system then becomes the mobile extension of the brain into the body, forever engaged in the mirror room of redefinitions (Hoffmeyer 1996). Jesper Hoffmeyer, The Semiosic Body-Mind